After waiting for over a year and a half from when I signed up, race weekend was finally here!  Friday night was the athletes’ meeting and packet pickup. I left later than planned and just barely made it in time for the meeting.  After the meeting, I picked up my race packet with my numbers and timing chip.  I was happy the volunteers also added our required markings to our arms as I had no clue what I was doing.   At this point with markered numbers on my arms, it started to feel real, I was really doing this.  I caught up with some of my fellow running club…